Posted on 03/18/2005 5:41:36 AM PST by MississippiMasterpiece
Fire up the bbQ and sharpen the knives...
Now I have to confess. I have actually eaten fresh roadkill pheasant. It was delicious.
I guess I'm a real redneck. A few years ago here in Missouri, there was a news story about a lady hitting a deer with her car. The deer flew up in the air and came through her back windshield, landing in the backseat. My first thought was, "Wow! She won't even need to find anybody to load it up and haul it home for her!" :)
Seriously, when we lived in Kansas, my husband hit a deer late one night. He called the state troopers and waited for them to bring him a tag for it. He brought it home and I helped him process it the next morning. It was a young tender buck and tasted just fine.
"Three days? Two of us turn a deer into serving portions in about four hours using a couple of knives, sharpening stone, hacksaw, freezer paper and tape. We could do it in less, but we're fussy about keeeping the fell, tallow and deer hair off the meat."
Exactly! The last deer I helped my husband process, though, I was 3 weeks postop from a Cesarean section, so I couldn't help with any of the really heavy work - I just cleaned the meat, wrapped it and put it in the freezer. With all the nursing breaks for the youngun, it took us about 8 hours to get it finished.
I know what you mean about being fussy about cleaning the meat well. Nothing worse than hair and debris left on meat! Yuck!
I didn't let it go to waste either. ;^þ
How about five of the AgencyPerson's couguar, instead? Seems that the cats ate the deer.
And that's no typo; all cougar in North America are now known to be one subspecies, Felis concolor couguar.
The site for the original papers is at: www.EvergladesInstitute.org. Take your choice of Acrobat or DjVu.
"ere now, where'd you get 'at pelt?
Not sure that you replied to the right person.
Cougar, deer, racoons, whatever....If it's already dead it should be first come first served. (Pun intended)
Make sure you get as much of the tallow (waxy fat) and fell (gray connective tissue) as you can as well. That adds to the gamy flavor. Our venison is as mild as the best beef.
My grandfather was a Finnish fisherman, something like a Rapala filet knife was a given.
one and one forth inch not size
I wonder if putting a cow-catcher on the bumper would be considered poaching, even if it were just to protect your car from damage, should "it" happen.
I knew a man who had a roadkill fawn stuffed, because it was just too beautiful to see it gone to waste. He hunted meat for his family when he could, but this was done just because he really loved and appreciated the wild animals all around us.
Muttly wanted to preserve the beautiful tail of a dead skunk he found recently. He learned important things when he slightly missed with his Official Machete.
Trust me on this one.
Put booby traps in the roadkill and eliminate some wackos!
yes there are glands on the inner legs at the knee joint that secrete a hormone that should be removed immediately during field dressing.
Also care must be taken to remove the bladder intact.
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